Google is a great search engine to use when you are looking for something on the internet. Google also has a subject directory seperate from the search engine. This search engine uses spiders that search the web for different pages to add to their database. Then when you search for a topic it goes through it's different pages in it's database and brings all of the pages up that match your query. People can also submit their website into Google's database, but if you submit it doesn't necessarily mean that your page will appear on a search for that topic. Google doesn't include all pages submitted. Google can also be helpful if you are looking for the latest stock quotes, or an address or phone nummber. Google is one one of the most helpful search engines out there but there are somethings that you should know when using this tool.
-You don't need to include 'and' between terms.
-You can use 'or' between terms.
- + and - are not necessary.
-Phrase searching is allowed by using quotes.
-Google is not case sensitive.
-Each time Google crawls the web they add and update their pages.
-It has BETA and lets searchers find non-english sites. If you do find a non-english page, Google can show it to you in english.
-Google has a phonebook.
-Google has the latest stock quotes online!
-If a page is unavailable Google has a backup page from when they first indexed that site.
-The"I'm Feeling Lucky" button takes you to the first result web page for your query.
There are not too many negative features about google but there are a few. One of them is that google doesn't do stemming. For example, if you were searching for a site on soccer teams and you typed in, "Socer Teems," nothing about soccer teams would come up. Also, Google can sometimes be hard to navigate through, this problem though is usually only for beginners. Once you get the hang of it, Google isn't really so hard to navigate through.
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